We Isle of Wight residents awaited this series with bated breath - it's always welcome when our beautiful Island is used as a backdrop for something fairly high profile.
Well, the Island did indeed look beautiful. And we all delighted in seeing the odd person we knew as an extra, and we got a kick from our knowledge of the geography involved (strolling from Godshill to Shanklin for a leisurely pint, haha).
But the plots? Oh dear.
I remember being bemused by story lines involving a head teacher being blackmailed by someone who was jealous over girlfriend rivalries when they were teenagers, a brewery representative dumping the main character and his father without their trousers with a view to bullying them into making a beer order until the mother came back with a threat concerning the brewery rep's son's football team, someone's post-cremation ashes (due to be sent up in the eponymous moon rocket) being spilt all over the street....
We really wanted a strong, positive showcase for our Island. What we got was ludicrous poppycock.
A dreadful, dreadful bunch of nonsense, but The Isle of Wight looked gorgeous.
Well, the Island did indeed look beautiful. And we all delighted in seeing the odd person we knew as an extra, and we got a kick from our knowledge of the geography involved (strolling from Godshill to Shanklin for a leisurely pint, haha).
But the plots? Oh dear.
I remember being bemused by story lines involving a head teacher being blackmailed by someone who was jealous over girlfriend rivalries when they were teenagers, a brewery representative dumping the main character and his father without their trousers with a view to bullying them into making a beer order until the mother came back with a threat concerning the brewery rep's son's football team, someone's post-cremation ashes (due to be sent up in the eponymous moon rocket) being spilt all over the street....
We really wanted a strong, positive showcase for our Island. What we got was ludicrous poppycock.
A dreadful, dreadful bunch of nonsense, but The Isle of Wight looked gorgeous.